During the week days,
they are luckily busy office people; but on weekends, they are just a
brood of stay-home animals. A recent survey shows that office workers
in China prefer quiet and easy ways to spend their weekends.
In
the survey, conducted by job seeking and offering website Zhaopin.com,
32.8 percent of the 6,000 respondents choose to stay home at weekends
and have a good rest, the Beijing Morning Post reported.
Twenty
percent use their days-off to do housework. And only 19.3 percent are
willing to have fun during the break time from work. Their first choice
of fun is shopping.
Other
choices, though practiced by few, include meeting friends, accompanying
the children, trips to the suburbs, and lessons for more skills.
When
they do go shopping, 54.5 percent of the white-collars actually shop in
supermarkets, while 27.9 percent attend other stores, especially when
discounts are offered.
These
activities don't seem to cost much, as 60 percent spend average less
than 200 yuan (US$26) during weekends, and 30 percent no more than 500
yuan.
When
asked whom they would spend the weekends with, about 40 percent mention
their partners, and 30 percent prefer a weekend all by themselves. Less
than 20 percent hang out with friends.
Only
5.8 percent would kill the time with their colleagues. This is because
we tend to avoid too many personal contacts with our co-workers when we
don't have to work with them, according to some ex
